RMIT Future Skills RMIT Future Skills

Digital Graphic Design

Course Delivery: Online
Start Date: 12 May 2025
Duration: 8 week/s
Level: Beginner
  • This is NOT a free course. Payment upfront required. Enquire now for more information

Course Information

Digital graphic design has been forecast by seek to grow 12.9% in the next 5 years. It is a unique and valuable skillset that allows you to tackle complex design challenges and create aesthetic, meaningful solutions that are both responsive and useful. Strong visual communication is vital to any digital role, whether it be creating a seamless website, receiving sign off from a presentation, or producing a high conversion ad campaign online.

Beyond creating perfect pixels, our Digital Graphic Design course will focus on the digital applications of graphic design skills, teaching you colour, layout, style, and typography principles through a digital lens on the Adobe platform. In the last 12 months, more than 8,500 jobs have sought skills in Adobe Photoshop, including roles in graphic design.

  • 8 weeks
  • 8-10 hours per week
  • 100% online
  • Mentor supported

Throughout this course you will gain real-world skills through a tangible project: Attain valuable, current graphic design experience by responding to a design problem in your organisation and articulate a solution to your design brief through a final presentation. Don’t have a project? Not to worry. If you can’t BYO your own project, you’ll be provided with the brand guidelines and examples of a design problem where you can apply your learnings and rationalise design decisions.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Explain how design principles apply to the creation of design assets
  • Design and create digital graphic assets that adhere to best practice design principles and practice
  • Evaluate design assets against a design brief and best practice design principles
  • A creative or aspiring designer looking to upskill and potentially seek or transition into a role in a digital team.
  • A current marketing, design thinking, human-centred design, or product specialist looking to distinguish yourself by gaining skills and experience in graphic design and improve your career opportunities.

Subjects

Core Units

Payment Option

  • Payment upfront required – $1,600 inc GST

Career Pathway

  • Creative or aspiring designer

  • Marketing specialist

  • Design thinking specialist

  • Human-centered design specialist

  • Product specialist

Professional Recognition

Adobe Adobe
Merkle Merkle

Eligibility

  • There are no prerequisites for this course

Why Choose RMIT Online?

  • Real world skills: Develop skills that have been validated by industry, while getting credentialed by a world-leading university.
  • Industry connected: You’ll gain knowledge and practical skills from renowned industry partners who are at the forefront of their field.
  • Flexible delivery: Advance your career while you study. RMIT Online courses let you balance work, study and life commitments.
  • Supported community: Be guided by a network of industry experts and peers, and supported by our dedicated success team.
RMIT Future Skills RMIT Future Skills
Digital Graphic Design
Course Delivery: Online
Start Date: 12 May 2025
Duration: 8 week/s
Level: Beginner